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On pg. 116, Ishmael ________________

Mrs. Keys

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This reveals/shows that __________________________.

Mrs. Keys

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On pg.120, Ishmael talks about how his friends Musa and Josiah died, and that there would be no one there to tell fun stories when they needed it. Also, he feels guilty for Josiah's death.

Juhi Patel

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on pg. 119, Ishmael describes how this was the first time he killed a man and how all of his built up emotion was let out when he continued killing.

Mykenzie Kuhns

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in this chapter ishmael and his friends were requited as kid soliders for the army.they were brought into battle the couple of weeks after training  " if you are christian this might be the last time you pray so you may leave early to pray" after the left they fought rebels were ishmael lost to of his freinds but he also killed a man.
Sean W.

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Ishmael describes the detailed, gory scene of the battle and explains how it is effecting him.

Sean Emmett

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On pg. 116, Ishmael was exposed to drugs for the first time.

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On pg. 116, Ishmael was exposed to drugs for the first time.

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Kaitlyn Jagielski

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On this page Ishmael and the boys are going to war for the first time and everyone is very quiet and finally realizing what they are about to go do.

Connor A.

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On page 118, Ishmael was apart of a shootout in the forest, which killed Josiah.

Avery Palombia

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Ishmael and his friends are called upon to fight the rebels in actual combat
Alex Lisotto

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On page 117, Ishmael and his troop head out on a mission to ambush a group of rebels and Ishmael is afraid as this is one of his first missions.
Kyndall Dodson

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Ishmael is in the middle of a gun fight seeing his friends being killed all around him.

Ethan

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Pg 116,  Ishmael and the rest of the soldiers left the village for their first attack against the rebels.

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Pg 116,  Ishmael and the rest of the soldiers left the village for their first attack against the rebels.

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Christie

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They are finally in combat and Ishmael is very scared and nervous to be in the middle of it, a rebel shot an RPG and killed Josiah.

Isaac Stephens

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On page 108, Ishmael and the other civilians are rounded up in the town square and shown two dead bodies of a man and child that tried to flee, encapsulating all men and boys in the firm decision that they must fight.

Emily Derosky

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the corporal tells them to enjoy the day off from training and if they worship anyone that they should get their get their prayers in. because this will be the last time they will be able to do so for awhile.

Clay Bovalina

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"They looked like capsules, but they were plain white...The Corporal said it will boost your energy."
All of these kids were so young that the leaders of this group has to use drugs just to keep them in line. Also, the drugs are causing them to be addicted at the age of 12.
Kaitlyn.

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The corporal called for everyone and said to stop doing what they are doing.

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On pg. 116, in this chapter Ishmael reveals to us the reader that he has been doing multiple types of drugs, and throughout the chapter shows the effects of taking them.

Bailey McCoy

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"I was not afraid of lifeless bodies."
Loss of Innocence

Jaelyn

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While in training the group gets into a fight with a group of men and Josiah dies.
Anthony

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They are in the middle of a battle against the rebels when Josiah is shot and killed. Ishmael was  so upset that he shot the person who had killed Josiah.

Olivia Pedockie

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"I have never been so afraid to go anywhere in my life as I was that day."

He is showing how scared he really is because he could easily die.
Connor A.

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"We walked into the arms of the forest, holding our guns as if they were the only thing that gave us strength."

I believe this quote is important because Ishmael has spent the majority of the time during the war being afraid and scared of others, while this simile shows that his gun is very important to him while on his journey.

Bailey McCoy

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"The veins on my arms stood out and I could feel them pulsating as if they had begun to breathe of their own accord. We waited in the quite, as hunters do, our fingers gently caressing the triggers. The silence tormented me."
This quote is important as it shows how anxious Ishmael is when he is out on a mission.
Kyndall Dodson

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"I had begun to fall into some sort of nightmare."

This reveals/shows how Ishmael is damaged by the situations he has been brought through and how he is having a very hard time taking it all in.

Ethan

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"My Face, my hands, my shirt, and gun were covered with blood. I raised my gun and pulled the trigger, and I killed a man." This is important because it describes the first time he killed a man and it wouldn't be the last time.

Isaac Stephens

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" The sun showed flashes of the tips of guns and bullets traveling towards us.Bodies had begun to pile on top of each other near a short palm tree,where fronds dripped blood."

This quote shows damages of war because Ishmael is describing what is happening during the war and how there are lot of people wounded and dying.

Juhi Patel

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"I grabbed the man's head and slit his throat in one fluid motion."
Loss of Innocence, Ishmael is immune to killing, even proud of it

Jaelyn

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"The veins on my arms stood out and I could feel them pulsating as if they had begun to breathe of their own accord."

This shows that Ishmael was very nervous to be shooting people.

Avery P

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on page 115 they head out to war  for the first time.

sarah

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"I raised my gun and pulled the trigger, and I killed a man."
This was the first person Ishmael killed in the war. He is traumatized after and everything he's seen from the war came rushing back."

Olivia Pedockie

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"I angrily pointed my gun into the swamp and killed more people."
This shows the damages of war because Ishmael has seen the rebels kill his friends and now he kills rebels due to his large hatred for them.
Alex L

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"I raised my gun and pulled the trigger, and I killed a man."

This reveals a loss of innocence because this is the first time he killed in the war.

Christie

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"I couldn't think, but I could hear the sounds of the guns far away in the distance and the cries of the people dying in pain. I had begun to fall into some sort of nightmare."

This shows the gruesome scene of the war and details how it is impacting peoples' lives, including Ishmael's.

Sean Emmett

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Ishmael and the rest of the group raided houses and villages for anything they could find.
Kaitlyn

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'' We undressed the prisoners and tied them until their chests were as tight as drums.''
This shows Damages of War because the prisoners were all tied up and couldn't breath.
Gus Psaros

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"I had never been so afraid to go anywhere in my life as i was that day.' This quote shows how war had changed him by making him scared to go anywhere.

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"no matter what happens we will stay together.''
this reveals how the training had brought them together

Clay Bovalina

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On pg. 123, Ishmael and the rest of his group had raided a village and eventually the lieutenant promised the civilians that they would protect them.

Bailey McCoy

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Ishmael realizes that they are not going for training but something different.

Luke Redington

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"He cried for his mother in the most painfully piercing voice that i had ever heard"
For me this serves as a reminder of how the war has effected more people then just our main characters.

ChRis MaXwElL

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'' During the fight Mamba had blinded one boy by plucking out his eye with a bayonet.''
This shows Damages of War because the Mamba was violently killing a boy who was young.
Gus Psaros

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"...they looked like the rebels who played cards in the ruins of the village where I had lost my family,"
Ishmael started to realize what he got himself into and realized what he was doing to the villages, and even himself.
Kaitlyn

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"Suddenly, as if someone was shooting them inside my brain, all the massacres i had seen since the day I was touched by war began flashing in my head."
This reveals how after all of this built up emotion he had, he finally let it all out and hurt a lot of people doing so.

Mykenzie Kuhns

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"The idea of death dint cross my mind at all and killing had become as easy as drinking water." this reveals how ishmael has changed and killing doesnt bother him anymore.
sarah

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On page 123, Ishmael and his troop have gone out and raided a village, killing rebels along the way and ones that are stationed in the villages.
Kyndall Dodson

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This is the first time Ishmael talks about doing drugs which will later become a big part of him and fighting the war.

Isaac Stephens

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On page 123, the corporal of the army Ishmael is apart of asked a prisoner a question, spat on the corporal and the corporal shot the prisoner in the head.

Avery P

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Ishmael continues fighting and practicing his combat skills for the next fight and take over more villages.

Ethan

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"They have lost everything that makes them human. They do not deserve to live. That is why we must kill every single on of them."

The lieutenant's words, though at that moment Ishmael feared, he began to live by them the deeper into the war he got.

Emily Derosky

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On pg.124, Ishmael talks about how the war has become their life that they could not see or understand anything else that was happening outside their war life.

Juhi Patel

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he said he didn't care about killing them

matt

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"My eyes were fixed on him when I heard Josiah scream. He cried for his mother in the most painfully piercing voice that I had ever heard." This is important because their first fight with rebels, for the military in the village, got his friends killed. After this he turned much more brutal.
Anthony

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Ishmael and his members killed and captured everything they had.
Ishmael was now one of the members.
Kaitlyn

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'' The blood of our victims and enemies was fresh on our clothes and arms.''
This shows Damages of War because the victims were all killed and injured.
Gus Psaros

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they were killing prisoners to practice killing.

matt

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"...we proceeded to practice killing the prisoners the way the lieutenant  had done it."

This quote shows us how Ishmael has changed and how aggressive he has gotten since war started.

Bailey McCoy

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they fight in the war for their first time

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they fight in the war for their first time

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"Whenever I looked at rebels during raids, I got angrier, because they looked like the rebels who played cards in the old ruins of the village where i had lost my family......, I shot as many as I could, but I didn't feel better." This depicts Ishmael's anger and hatred towards the rebels and how it seemed like no matter how many he killed he still hated them for what they did.

Isaac Stephens

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"In the daytime, instead of playing soccer in the village square, I took turns at the guarding posts around the village, smoking marijuana and sniffing brown brown..."
Ishmael is no longer doing things that a normal kid would do. Instead he is taking part in all of the bad activities that the other veteran soldiers do.

Olivia Pedockie

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Ishmael goes into detail about the various drugs he is doing and describes the effects they are having on him.

Sean Emmett

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"if you are religious, I mean Christian worship your lord today because you may not have another chance. Dismissed"
this shows that they are going to fight here soon so the corporal told them to pray before they fight because you may never come back

Sean W.

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Now it was clear to all that we weren't going for training. This is an example of damages of war, because they think that they might be going for war.

Luke Redington

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"The idea of death didn't cross my mind at all and killing had become as easy as drinking water."
This reveals that the war changed Ishmael's mindset of being a young kid to being a soldier.
Avery P

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they are told to carry more ammunition than food and water cause with more ammunition you can get/find/take food and water.
mason

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Ishmael used his bayonet to kill a prisoner by slicing his throat.

Christie

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On pg. 131, Ishmael and a few of the people from his squad had arrived at a new place, called Freetown, which was the capital of Sierra Leone.

Bailey McCoy

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on page 124 they killed prisoners for practice 

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on page 124 they killed prisoners for practice 

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On page 121, Ishmael details his drug addiction beginning to take off, and how he felt because of them.

Emily Derosky

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Ishmael kills a prisoner soldier in cold blood and everybody cheers for him.
Anthony

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"His Adam's apple made way for the sharp knife, and I turned the bayonet on its zigzag edge as I brought it out... as he gave out his last breath.I dropped him on the grounded and wiped my bayonet on him."

This quote shows loss of innonces because Ishmael would never ever even be so rude to a person and kill them. Also, Ishmael has always been polite and nice to people older then him and in this he just stabs the man not thinking about what is going and what's wrong with what he is doing.

Juhi Patel

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On page 133, Ishmael and a group of young boys are transported to a village so they can be normal kids but the group of boys were from both the rebel side and army side and broke out into a fight.

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Ishmael kills a prisoner that the army had found and was given the rank of junior lieutenant
Alex L

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"we would come back hours after killing many people and continue the movie as if we had just returned  from intermission"

After reading this i couldn't believe that this was the same Ishmael from the beginning of the book .
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"the person whose prisoner died quickest would win the contest." this quote shows how they started making a game out of killing.
sarah

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"The corporal gave the signal with a pistol shot and I grabbed the man's head and slit his throat in one fluid motion" This is important because it shows he has lost a lot of his humanity.
Anthony

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"I grabbed the mans head and slit his throat in one fluid motion."

This reveals/shows Ishmael has changed as a person and how he can just kill somebody without resisting.

Ethan

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" we had a contest to see who could kill their prisoner faster.''
this reveals that ishmael has lost all of his touch with reality.
Clay Bovalina

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"The first time I took all of these drugs at the same time, I began to perspire so much that I took off all my clothes."

The reader begins to see the loss of innocence in Ishmael begin to set in as he begins hard drug usage and gradually gets more violent.

Emily Derosky

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"It hadn't crossed their minds that a change of environment wouldn't immediately make us normal boys; we were dangerous, and brainwashed to kill."

This quote is very important because it has shown us the effects of war and how they can damage a persons morals and thoughts. The idea of changing their ways is out of the question, because they truly believe what they are doing is the right thing.

Bailey McCoy

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"I didn't feel a thing for him, didn't think that much about what I was doing."
Killing has become a normal thing for Ishmael, an that isn't typical for somebody young like he is, therefor this shows a loss of innocence.

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Ishmael is no longer afraid of what the war might throw at him. He has become obsessed over the being in the war and attacking other villages.

Olivia Pedockie

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"...I took turns at the guarding posts around the village, smoking marijuana and sniffing brown brown, cocaine mixed with gunpowder, which was always spread out on the table, and of course taking more of the white capsules, as i had become addicted to them. They gave me a lot of energy."

This shows how at a very young age Ishmael has become a drug addict and views them as nothing more than boosters for energy.

Sean Emmett

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Ishmael talks about the effects all the drugs had on him and how it made him forget about the idea of death.

Mykenzie Kuhns

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On page 129, Ishmael and 14 other boys are being picked up and taken away from the fighting by UNICEF.
Kyndall Dodson

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"The idea of death didn't  cross my mind at all and killing became as easy as drinking water."
This reveals a loss of innocence because since Ishmael has now killed one person it has become very easy for him to due him losing his innocence.
Alex L.

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"They placed some of us at gunpoint and kicked others apart. Six people were killed: two on our side and four on the rebel side; and several were wounded, including two of the men who had brought us."
This reveals that the war made the young boys hostile and unable to get the idea of war and killing out of their heads.
Avery P

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The lieutenant is sending Ishmael off and said he was proud to served his country with him.

Ethan

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Ishmael and one of his friends were chosen by the lieutenant to go with the city officers to a new camp with many other boys from different camps and different sides of the war.

Olivia Pedockie

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"i am going on a raid tomorrow morning, so i might not see you before i leave." this quote shows another raid that is happening which is a main event in chapter 15.
sarah

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civilians come and ask the corporal for 15 of his men and tells the corporal that they will be taken away and be given a better life.

Clay Bovalina

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"You have been great soldiers and you all know that you are part of this brotherhood. I am very proud to have served my country with you boys. But your work here is done, and I must send you off. These men will put you in school and find you another life."
This quote is important as it is the part in the book where Ishmael is rescued from the fighting.
Kyndall Dodson

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Ishmael and Alhaji get into a fight with two rebel boys and ends up brutally killing them both.
Anthony

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ishmael was selected out of 5 boys to kill 3 prisoners  with their bayonet  as the prisoner looked up he looked like he saw a ghost and his eyes shaked in fear of death were he placed it and pulled they had a competition to see witch would died first.
at this point in the story ishmael has lost is and wants his family back and blames the rebels

Sean W.

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The lieutenant selected fifteen of the young soldiers to leave with civilians.

Christie

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"the lieutenant slit his neck with his bayonet....We cheered again, raising our guns in the air, shouting and whisting."
This is important because it reveals how they are completely forgetting about the idea of death, to where they are becoming proud of what they are doing.

Mykenzie Kuhns

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"From now on, we kill any rebel we see, no prisoners...All I could think about was what was going to happen..."
This is important because Ishmael was only worried about his gun and drugs. He had mostly forgotten about getting back to his family at this point.
Kaitlyn

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'' we thought we would be part of the war till the end.''
this reveals how important this war had became to ishmael because when hes given a way out he seems reluctant to take it.
Clay Bovalina